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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-and-tribunals-judiciary-and-functions-of-staff-act-2018-consequential-transitional-and-saving-provision-regulations-2020/schedule/paragraph-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2020/100",
  "legislation_title": "The Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Act 2018 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provision) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-and-tribunals-judiciary-and-functions-of-staff-act-2018-consequential-transitional-and-saving-provision-regulations-2020",
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  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Magistrates' Courts (Hearsay Evidence in Civil Proceedings) Rules 1999",
  "text": "(1) The Magistrates' Courts (Hearsay Evidence in Civil Proceedings) Rules 1999 are amended as follows.\n(2) In rule 3 (hearsay notices), in paragraph (2), omit “or the justices' clerk”.\n(3) In rule 4 (power to call witness for cross-examination on hearsay evidence)—\n(a) in paragraph (3)(a), for “justices' clerk” substitute “ designated officer for the court ”;\n(b) in paragraph (5)—\n(i) after “The court”, omit “or the justices' clerk”;\n(ii) after “if the court”, omit “or the justices' clerk, as the case may be,”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/681, to which relevant amendments were made by S.I. 2001/615 and S.I. 2005/617."
    }
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  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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